Althouse: At the Lily Café...

June 24, 2013

At the Lily Café...

... you can talk all night.

36 comments:

Ann Althouse said...: Inga said...
And of clothing what ben ye bisye? Biholde ye the lilies of the feeld, how thei wexen. Thei trauelen not, nether spynnen;
- Wycliffe Bible; 6/24/13, 10:12 PM
Ann Althouse said...: (Sorry, Inga, I had to delete and quote that because of the huge extra space.); 6/24/13, 10:12 PM
Anonymous said...: Did my comment get eaten by the spam monster?; 6/24/13, 10:13 PM
Anonymous said...: Oh, sorry about the space.; 6/24/13, 10:14 PM
Julie C said...: Had to put on my Uggs this afternoon - it's been cool today. Now it is full on raining in lovely Northern California. Rain at this time of the year is fairly unusual here.

But that means I don't have to water my tomatoes for a couple of days.; 6/24/13, 10:44 PM
Synova said...: I've got that lily but no blooms this year. It was too dry last year and I took a trip and everything was neglected through late summer. So... the lilies are too small to flower and the irises were mostly a bust too. Blah. I like gardening, but taking a whole year to get good results is sort of frustrating. I'm going to try real hard to keep up this summer and fertilize and water and see if next year has more flowers.; 6/24/13, 10:47 PM
Julie C said...: The thing I miss the most about the East coast are the thunderstorms. In this part of California, we rarely get them.

When I was a kid, my dad and I used to sit on the front porch and watch the summer rainstorms (in Pennsylvania). My mother used to get upset if it was thundering and lightening while we were sitting outside. She thought it was very irresponsible of my dad to sit out on the porch during a thunderstorm.; 6/24/13, 10:48 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Hi Inga.

How come you seem to have given up on avatars?

You want to go unnoticed for a while?; 6/24/13, 10:51 PM
Mark Trade said...: Hello Wisconsin late night from the west coast! Well no not really. Arizona. We have no daylight savings time, see, so we're on west coast time. Mhm!; 6/24/13, 10:56 PM
Anonymous said...: Laying low Lem.; 6/24/13, 10:59 PM
ampersand said...: Is this a case of when In Rome?
Now the tourists are whacking each other in Chi-town.

Wisconsin couple dies at hotel in murder-suicide; 6/24/13, 11:01 PM
Chip S. said...: It was check-out time.; 6/24/13, 11:03 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Is the desire to lay low brought about by the bad political climate of your side is currently in or is it more complicated?; 6/24/13, 11:07 PM
Chip S. said...: She's already used every pic she's got, Lem.; 6/24/13, 11:10 PM
Anonymous said...: Kim Wright of Oconomowoc??! Whoa.; 6/24/13, 11:16 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: She's already used every pic she's got, Lem.

Maybe somebody else said this already but I just want to say that despite my many possible disagreements with Inga, I consider her contributions here very valuable.

I cant know for sure what I believe, if I'm unwilling to test my ideas (cordially) against people who are willing to engage in an honest open exchange.

Inga seems willing and for that I'm grateful.; 6/24/13, 11:21 PM
Anonymous said...: Why, thank you kindly Lem.; 6/24/13, 11:24 PM
Curious George said...: Blackhawks score two goals in 17 secondslate in the third to take the Cup. Awesome series.; 6/24/13, 11:30 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I was looking up "unnoticed" because I wanted to used something closer to a Spanish word I like that means unnoticed but its nothing like unnoticed.

The Spanish word is Desapercibido - Desapersibido is a gravitas sounding word. its about a person it has flesh. Whereas "unnoticed" connotes a post-it note falling behind a desk... unmeritorious of personhood.; 6/24/13, 11:39 PM
Chip S. said...: Were you thinking of using it to describe the Bruins' goalie in the last few minutes tonight?; 6/24/13, 11:45 PM
Baron Zemo said...: Hockey sucks.; 6/25/13, 12:20 AM
Baron Zemo said...: But not as much as Boston.; 6/25/13, 12:20 AM
Anonymous said...: The thing I miss the most about the East coast are the thunderstorms. In this part of California, we rarely get them.

Know what you mean. I've been in the Bay Area thirty years now and I can only remember a handful of those white-light-kaboom rattle-your-gizzard thunderstorms.

Perhaps it's just as well. I managed to get struck by lightning twice when I was young and foolish and living on the other side of the Mississippi.; 6/25/13, 12:43 AM
Dante said...: Who takes these awesome pictures? Is it you, Ann? I'm supposing so from your art history background.

It's simply amazing to me how much we can have in this modern age that was so expensive even 200 years ago. The most amazing music, anywhere. Art at your fingertips. The best literature inexpensively. Thought, etc.

These things are a truly rich part of our world.; 6/25/13, 12:46 AM
Anonymous said...: RE: creeley23 said...

"Perhaps it's just as well. I managed to get struck by lightning twice when I was young and foolish and living on the other side of the Mississippi."

Hopefully You Didn't Put on Your Combat Boots and Attempt the Jeff Buckley Mississippi Backstroke.; 6/25/13, 12:46 AM
Anonymous said...: I wouldn't say great sunsets are rare here, but they're not nearly as common as they are in Florida.; 6/25/13, 12:47 AM
Chip Ahoy said...: Avocado stuffed with mango salsa and a little piece of corn singed in butter. Man oh man, this was good. Vegetarian meal, unless butter disqualifies it.; 6/25/13, 12:51 AM
Anonymous said...: Hopefully You Didn't Put on Your Combat Boots and Attempt the Jeff Buckley Mississippi Backstroke.

No. I was riding my bicycle on top of the Mississippi River levee during one of those quick developing Louisiana thunderstorms.

I do miss Jeff Buckley. Lord, how he sang Hallelujah. Just incredible.; 6/25/13, 12:52 AM
J said...: As I look South over the Gulf just at first light these grey scudding ghosts of leftover clouds befin to turn that glorious shade of dawn yellow pink at the exact same time that their sibling vapors are blackenjng and dumping their essence back into the gulf with stupendous fireworks shows.My granny used to call sun and thunder the Devil beating his wife.That wild combination of colors,breezes,and skin creepiness iswhy I lurve FL.; 6/25/13, 5:12 AM
J said...: I' ve tried to.photograph the phenonema a time or two but all my attempts convince me is I am simply inadequate to convey that 3D fish eye wide angle effect.Got the same feeling facing east from peaks in Wyoming and Colorado.; 6/25/13, 5:18 AM
Chip Ahoy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/25/13, 5:46 AM
Chip Ahoy said...: Lilies take umbrage at being considered.; 6/25/13, 5:47 AM
edutcher said...: Lovely pic, Madame.

You must have spent all evening on the porch, getting away from the heat.

How cool is this?

AZ wants to recall both its Senators?; 6/25/13, 6:02 AM
Clyde said...: Re: The Wisconsin couple's suspected murder-suicide and the fact that the woman was from Oconomowoc: I suspect it may have had something to do with last week's horrific sweep of the Oconomowoc Mocs (my Strat-O-Matic baseball team) at the hands of the Sin City Stand. After dropping the first two games, we had a 4-2 lead going to the ninth, but with two outs, our pitcher loaded the bases on a walk-single-walk, and then our closer came in and yielded a grand slam to Robinson Cano. I knew the fans were unhappy, but I didn't think it would go to such extremes!

And no, I've never been to Wisconsin. The team name was all about the onomatopoeia.; 6/25/13, 6:51 AM
Clyde said...: Also, my avatar is my team logo. It's actually the O from the KASnake font.; 6/25/13, 6:56 AM
Curious George said...: Lem said...
I was looking up "unnoticed" because I wanted to used something closer to a Spanish word I like that means unnoticed but its nothing like unnoticed.

The Spanish word is Desapercibido - Desapersibido is a gravitas sounding word. its about a person it has flesh. Whereas "unnoticed" connotes a post-it note falling behind a desk... unmeritorious of personhood.

6/24/13, 11:39 PM
Chip S. said...
Were you thinking of using it to describe the Bruins' goalie in the last few minutes tonight?

Don't blame Rask. You need look no further than Bruin captain Zdeno Chara who is the most overrated defenseman in the history of the NHL.; 6/25/13, 7:00 AM